I’m listening to the first track right now and it’s damn good. OC Remix’s community gathered to produce another kick ass OC Remix album. This time it’s for Doom II. Still downloading it, but I’m loving what I’m hearing right now.
You can grab the torrent from their official website.
Another one of them cage rattling interviews with John Carmack. I love his candidness. His latest quotable comment is this:
We still think the PC is a market worth supporting, but we’re not making decision around the PC. It’s probably more of the junior partner in the cross-platform strategy, although obviously, our day-to-day development is predominately on the PC.
I’m not surprised at all. He’s just reacting to the market conditions. PC die hards will probably be upset over this, but Mr. Carmack assures us that he’ll continue to support the PC platform:
We certainly expect Rage and the Doom project on the PC. We’re contractually obligated to have Rage on the PC, and I would be stunned if we did not do Doom 4 for the PC. It would just be wrong. Even if it was a marginal business case, we would still do it because it’s the right thing to do.
Put down your pitchforks, folks. id Software is not abandoning you.
For more reasons to get riled up, read the full interview from Tom’s Games.
It was hinted at before, but now John Carmack made it official: Doom 4 is coming. It will use the id Tech 5 engine as well, but it will look better than Rage since they’ve made the concious decision to reduce the number of frames per second from 60 to 30.
That’s all we got so far.
Surprising. Doom 4? On id Tech 5? I guess I should be excited, but after their last outing, I’m not too sure. Doom 3 was alright, but it was terribly flawed. The space marine sub-genre spawned from Doom, so it’ll be interesting to see why id Software will conjure up. Doom 4 will take place on Earth. As for release date? Since they’ve just begun hiring more people, I doubt the project is very far along. (BTW, where’s Rage?)
